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Re: Installing Windows 98SE on a (fairly) new machine

Posted on 2017-05-24, 16:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Big amount RAM is not problem absolutely. It can be resolve by replacing himem.sys on any old himem with 64MB limit, or patched (by me) version xmgr.sys with user selectable limit in 1 MB - 4 GB. i can upload it, if need. better solve 512 MB problem - RLP by RLoew (paid), with this can use original …

Re: Two psu's, which would you buy?

Posted on 2017-05-20, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

enermax, if in good condition...

Re: Looking for RAM test program for a 286 , not checkit

Posted on 2017-05-19, 10:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

possible NDIAGS (Norton Diagnostics) can help...

Re: Win 3.11 with a Fasttrak SATA controller = no luck

Posted on 2017-04-25, 18:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i used win 3.11 wfwg on core i7 3770 with chipset SATAs and has no big problems. work via int13 in ahci and ide mode (buggy, no 3xx port, only ffxx, it was big problem for 9x), no 32 bit disk access. but on that fastest machine 32bda is useless. 3.11 was run with trumpet tcp over RL2000 pci ethernet …

Re: Wanted: *.ah includes for compile DOSIDLE

Posted on 2017-04-17, 14:16

in DOS

in DOS

it's was reverse engineering by pm386.

Re: Retro PCI cards in modern motherboards

Posted on 2017-04-03, 08:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

atar wrote: The Trio64V+ uses a 86c765 chip, which does work on my Haswell PC too. Do you have a non V+ Trio64 card to test? yes, sorry... its 765. I will look in my collection, may be i have two more non-765 s3... 😀

Re: AT Power supply for 386.

Posted on 2017-04-02, 19:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good. Set voltage limit to 20 v and measure molex, as i say. Also check fan when psu plugged in wall. U must sense air flow, and it should not smell! If all look good, open psu and clean all with brush.

Re: Retro PCI cards in modern motherboards

Posted on 2017-04-02, 19:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use s3 trio 64+. It's work good. U check ur s3 with other machines, they work, or possible have hardware problems?

Re: Retro PCI cards in modern motherboards

Posted on 2017-04-02, 18:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are u enable legacy or csm support in uefi? Try set video priority to pci first, not pcie or internal. I know not as Haswell+ machines, but my z68 with 3770 ivy bridge work good with all pci cards, except Via USB controller.

Re: AT Power supply for 386.

Posted on 2017-04-02, 18:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

U have multimeter? Aka amper-volt-ohm-meter? Or just voltmeter...

Re: Help building my retro xp gaming pc

Posted on 2017-04-02, 18:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or mobo problem, or cpu overheat. Check cooler. Try other xp distr. Try any live cd. Try replace cpu.

Re: AT Power supply for 386.

Posted on 2017-04-02, 17:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i know nothing about quality of this thing... if u have multimeter, u can check output voltage on molex connectors befor buying: red - black must be 5 V yellow - black must be 12 V allowed divergence is 5% from nominal. but remember, that under load this divergences can grow...

Re: AT Power supply for 386.

Posted on 2017-04-02, 17:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, its AT PSU. can buy.

Re: AT Power supply for 386.

Posted on 2017-04-02, 17:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, i cant find info about connectors on this DTK... If it is ATX, not AT - u cant connect his ATX 20 PIN to mobo's AT P8/P9 inputs directly.

Re: AT Power supply for 386.

Posted on 2017-04-02, 17:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Baoran wrote: There is someone selling 230W DTK PTP-2008 cheap near where I live. Is that any good? yes, if his interior is clean and capacitors remains in good condition... I have some old AT PSU 25 years old, and use it episodically. He work good!

Re: How do I install Win9x on a Toshiba 3110CT?

Posted on 2017-04-02, 11:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

insert disk into other work machine, do full disk erase with help Victoria or MHDD tool. after cleaning disk check, that no bad sectors at begin disk, and create new mbr and partitions. make new partition and format it as bootable with just DOS files. check, that machine can boot from this disk. if …

Re: Replacing my pentium 2 cpu fan.

Posted on 2017-04-01, 17:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If remove upper metallic cover, than can use ordinal 80x25 mm fan, fixed it on two diagonal screws. I think, it's may be better solution.

Re: Patching old DOS game to make it work on faster computers

Posted on 2017-04-01, 08:25

in DOS

in DOS

But wouldn't there be screen tearing when the screen scrolls because 18.2Hz is not an even multiple of 60Hz or 70Hz? 8253 use 1193182 Hz as base clock. 18.2 Hz is just minimal possible frequency with 16 bit divider: 1193182 / 65535 = 18.2. U can reprogram channel 0 for any need frequency. 19886 …

Re: PPT - Parallel Port Tester

Posted on 2017-03-31, 19:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

All ports, what i try - remain work. No smoke, even after direct wiring. But sure, better use resistors 10 kohm for this task...

Re: PPT - Parallel Port Tester

Posted on 2017-03-31, 16:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, sorry... How i can move or delete this topic?

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